China News Service, October 20. According to the official website of the United Nations, UNICEF spokesperson Elder said on the 19th that the conflict in Yemen has just reached another "shameful milestone": since the beginning of the fighting in March 2015, there have been Ten thousand children were killed or maimed.

This is equivalent to 4 children having similar experiences every day.

Data map: Taz, Yemen's third largest city. At the beginning of the new school year, students are taking classes in temporary classrooms.

In an air raid two years ago, the teaching building was severely damaged, and it has become ruined.

　　He pointed out that these are all cases that the United Nations can verify.

In addition to the families of these children, more child deaths and injuries have not been recorded.

　　Elder also shared some shocking figures:

　　-4 out of 5 Yemeni children need humanitarian assistance, which is equivalent to more than 11 million children;

　　-400,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition;

　　-More than 2 million children are out of school, and another 4 million are at risk of dropping out;

　　-Due to violence, 1.7 million children are currently internally displaced;

　　Elder said that Yemen is currently suffering from the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. This crisis has four tragic threats: violence and protracted conflict; economic destruction; And health, protection, and education - services are all broken; the UN is seriously underfunded to deal with it.

Data map: Taiz, Yemen, children participate in the school's open-air courses.

Due to the outbreak of war in Yemen in 2015, funding was interrupted, resulting in the school building has not been completed.

　　Elder emphasized that at the current level of funding, it is impossible for UNICEF to reach all these children if the fighting is not ended.

In other words: Without more international support, more children — those who are not responsible for this crisis — will die.

　　Elder said that UNICEF urgently needs more than $235 million in funding to continue its life-saving aid work in Yemen in mid-2022.

Otherwise, the agency will be forced to reduce or stop its important assistance to disadvantaged children.

　　UNICEF reiterated that more than 10,000 children in Yemen have been killed or disabled in the conflict.

"Are we really going to continue to add children to this miserable list day after day, year after year?"